By Salvador Rodriguez
Los Angeles Times
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Samsung has unveiled the Galaxy S5, the latest version of its flagship smartphone. The device includes a fingerprint scanner and will go on sale in April.
Unlike in previous years, when Samsung announced new Galaxy S models with larger and larg...

By Joe Flint
Los Angeles Times
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The new distribution contract CBS Corp. signed with Time Warner Cable Inc. last summer after a bitter fight could be a casualty of Comcast Corp.’s proposed acquisition of the pay-TV operator.
According to people familiar with the deal, it does not i...

By Gail MarksJarvis
Chicago Tribune
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Look at your cute baby, and imagine the little tyke wearing a high school cap and gown about 17 years from now.
Picturing the child holding a diploma, when he or she can’t even hold a rattle yet, is probably next to impossible. But that day wil...

By Andrea Chang and Daniel Miller
Los Angeles Times
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Sony Corp., a struggling electronics maker trying to regain its once stalwart status, is undertaking a major restructuring that includes the sale of its PC division, a spinoff of its TV business and layoffs of thousands of employees....

By Kathleen Hennessey
Tribune Washington Bureau
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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration will set up 10 centers around the country to help farmers and ranchers adjust to the increasing frequency of severe weather and other risks associated with climate change.
Agriculture Secretary Tom ...

By Kim Lyons
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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PITTSBURGH — Across the country, law school graduates are preparing to take next month’s bar examination in order to get their licenses to practice law. Many will spend a few thousand dollars on an all-consuming preparatory course, even as they ...

By Katie Humphrey
Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
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Start counting.
How many passwords do you have?
Rajean Moone of Minneapolis has so many — more than 75 — that he tracks most of them on a super-secret spreadsheet. Others he scribbles on hidden Post-It notes — coded in a foreign language.
“It’s...

By Howard Mintz
San Jose Mercury News
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In what has become a ritual, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh last week finished off a pretrial hearing in the patent showdown between Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. by removing her reading glasses, looking down at the armada of lawyers and asking plaintively,...

By Jeremy C. Owens
San Jose Mercury News
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Amid reports of manufacturing issues that could limit the supply, Apple began selling its newest iPad Mini on Tuesday, less than two weeks after its latest full-sized iPad debuted in the United States.
The technology giant’s second attempt at ...

By Brian Gaar and Kirk Ladendorf
Dell Inc. shareholders have approved the buyout of the company by founder Michael Dell and his financial ally Silver Lake Partners.
The company reported Thursday that a preliminary tally showed a majority of votes cast at a shareholders meeting were in favor of...

Steve Jobs, co-founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Apple Inc., died October 5th of 2011. He died from respiratory arrest at his home in Palo Alto, Calif. He had been battling pancreatic cancer since mid-2004.
Many actually learned of his passing on one of the many devices he had helped...